Sentences with phrase «weeks reading their textbooks»

«After spending many weeks reading their textbooks and articles from Advertising Age, they can take theory and put it into practice.

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This was a rather remarkable type of education because we were expected to read textbooks for one day of the week and then reviews for the second day, and then after that it had to be all original literature.

A photo caption accompanying a story in the print version of the Sept. 21, 2005, issue of Education Week («Reading From the Right,») about Neal Frey, a textbook reviewer in Longview, Texas, included incorrect information.

Like all the other students in Joanna Ecke's American - literature class at Wilton High School here, Sister M. Andrina Logan dutifully carries her textbook to class four days a week and does the required readings by Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, and Benjamin Franklin.

The school uses few textbooks because classes move too quickly — «No textbook is going to fit the bill for more than two weeks,» she said — and because students prefer the variety of perspectives that come from reading original sources.

Participants were 11th and 12th grade students identified with learning disabilities in reading and writing from two intact, self - contained social studies classes.During the three weeks of the study, students in the experimental group received content regarding the Industrial Revolution via a conceptually framed, computer - adapted text, while students in the control group were taught the same content using the district adopted textbook.

When my six year old regularly bubbles in her reading test each week (from a cc - aligned, very expensive new textbook), her teacher loses valuable time in which she could be teaching first graders to READ.

Not only can you buy textbooks and read them in any of their official apps, but you can rent them for a day, week or semester.

Amazon.com is widely expected to lift the wraps on a new large - screen Kindle device this week, which could be the first in a line of electronic reading devices geared toward newspapers and textbooks.

A couple of weeks ago, when he and his fellow board members were supposed to be voting on whether to purchase new textbooks and reading materials for the district, Weber put a stop to the vote by taking a bold stand in defense of climate denial, political cronyism, and intellectual closed - mindedness.

For the first four weeks, students read the first three sessions of Seeing Systems and from a more academic and theological textbook, Resisting Structural Evil.

In this alternative learning style, the school sends «learning packets» through the mail, including all required reading, textbooks, and assignments for a period of several weeks.

This course would require reading out of a certain chapter for that week's assignments, as well as work or textbook homework over the material covered in the chapter.